The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for TBI residuals because there was no current disability and the evidence did not show a then-current TBI disability that was incurred in or related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim as it did not provide any new diagnosis of a current TBI disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 3, 2021
- Citation
- 21026510
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